Nikodim Kolesov

Life

Born

1955

Consecrated bishop

2003

Made archbishop

2004

Sees

1. 2003

   Bishop of Staraya Russa

   Vicar of Saint Petersburg · True Orthodox Church in Russia

2. 2003 – 2004

   Bishop of Novgorod and Valdai

   True Orthodox Church in Russia

3. 2004 – 2007

   Archbishop of Saint Petersburg and Novgorod

   True Orthodox Church in Russia

4. 2007

   Metropolitan of Siberia and the Far East

   Orthodox Russian Church

5. 2007 – 2011

   Archbishop of Saint Petersburg and Novgorod

   True Orthodox Church in Russia

6. 2011 – present

   Former Archbishop of Saint Petersburg and Novgorod

   True Orthodox Church in Russia

Consecration

Consecrated 2003 by:

• Anthony Korbut/Korbat Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and the Baltics, 1934–2016
• Didim Nesterov Archbishop of Saint Petersburg, b. 1944

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 11 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Nikodim Kolesov Archbishop of Saint Petersburg and Novgorod consecrated 2003
2. Anthony Korbut/Korbat Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and the Baltics, 1934–2016 consecrated 27 September 2002
3. Epifanii Kaminskii Metropolitan of Minsk and Svetlogorsk, b. 1931 consecrated 1980
4. Anthony Golynskii-Mikhailovskii Archbishop, 1890–1976 consecrated 1923
5. Juvenal Maslovskii Archbishop of Ryazan and Shatsk, 1878–1937 consecrated 24 August 1914
6. Vladimir Bogoyavlenskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1848–1918 consecrated 13 June 1888
7. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
8. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
9. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
10. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
11. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
12. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 2

• 19 September 2004Paul Zinkevich Bishop of Volokolamsk, cons. 2004
• 21 November 2004Andrew Davidyan/Davidov Metropolitan of Pyatigorsk and the Northern Caucasus, b. 1960